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[Carlyles Ghost]

Background: I saw a Korean film of recent vintage a couple years ago which featured a brief appearance by an English Teacher. The teacher (young, pretty, female) walked into a classroom and stood at a podium in silence whilst the kids sat around talking. All of a sudden, for no reason, the teacher began laughing. The high school students stopped talking and all 40 stared at her as though she was off her rocker. The director, from what I recall, was trying to show the foreigner desperately to ingratiate herself. And that was that: a slightly off-balance foreign teacher, laughing wildly. Exit stage right. I don't recall the name of the film but are there other Korean films in which foreign teachers play a role?

[King Baeksu]

A well-known independent female producer I know here once wanted me to play a bit part as an English teacher in a movie she was producing. There were some pretty big stars in it, too.

But when she showed my headshot to the director, he rejected me because he thought I didn't "look like a teacher" because I have a shaved head.

I've been an English teacher at Hanyang, Oedae, Hongik, Kookmin, Seoul Yodae and the headquarters for LG. Did a couple of years in Japan as well.

I guess what he really meant to say was that I didn't have rack. I knew there was something I forget to get when I was doing my teacher training.

[korea252]

"Please teach me English". Don't know if she's a teacher or not but it's a good movie.

[Young FRANKenstein]

"Oh Happy Day" with 장나라 has several scenes with foreigners who are supposed to be bussinessmen/women, but man, what horrible choices they made for actors. Painful to watch them unable to get through that wet paper bag with their acting skills.

[blaseblasphemener]

How about the TV show where all the actors are Russians, but speaking English? Must be really low budget.

[King Baeksu]